Recently, two highly publicized ransomware victims received a decryptor that was too slow to make it effective in quickly restoring the victim s network.
Justin Sean Johnson, a 30-year-old from Detroit, Michigan, has pleaded guilty to stealing the personally identifiable information (PII) of 65,000 employees of health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and selling it on the dark web.
The new group policies coming to Windows 10 21H2
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05:08 PM
As Microsoft continues to develop the Windows 10 21H2 feature update, we can use the preview builds to get a glimpse of the upcoming features, changes, and new group policies coming to the operating system this fall.
Microsoft just released Windows 10 21H1 last week, but it was not met with much fanfare as it is not a very exciting release.
Windows 10 21H2, also known as the Sun Valley update, is poised to be a much more feature-rich version, with a new UI refresh, DNS-over-HTTPS support, a modern disk management tool, new settings, and more.
Iranian hacking group targets Israel with wiper disguised as ransomware
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An Iranian hacking group has been observed camouflaging destructive attacks against Israeli targets as ransomware attacks while maintaining access to victims networks for months in what looks like an extensive espionage campaign.
The threat actor, tracked as
Agrius by SentinelLabs researchers, has targeted Israel starting with December 2020. Initially engaged in espionage activity, Agrius deployed a set of destructive wiper attacks against Israeli targets, masquerading the activity as ransomware attacks, said Amitai Ben Shushan Ehrlich, Threat Intelligence Researcher at SentinelOne.
From wiper to fully functional ransomware
At first, the group deployed a wiper malware known as DEADWOOD (or Detbosit) designed to destroy data on infected devices and previously used in attacks against Saudi Arabian targets in 2019.
Microsoft has officially confirmed that it has paused the development of Windows 10X, its Chrome OS competitor for single-screen and dual-screen devices.